If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.